In The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, Yair Zloof and colleagues1 show that obesity in otherwise healthy adolescents was ...

New research exploring the roots of modern Japanese populations has linked the genetic signature of Jomon hunter-gatherers to a higher body mass index (BMI) among individuals, underlining that ancient ...

Amongst people who are already suffering from obesity, genetics is a powerful tool for identifying those most at risk of the serious complications associated with the condition, such as heart ...

Monogenic forms of early onset severe childhood obesity (ie, presenting before the age of 5 years) can occur in the context ...

A new study has revealed how genetic variations in the SI gene, which affects sucrose digestion, influence dietary ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — Young people with severe obesity who underwent weight-loss surgery at age 19 or younger continued to see sustained weight loss and resolution of common obesity-related ...

Five University of Cambridge experts have shared their views on whether semaglutide-based drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic can ...

The report also found that obesity’s incremental annual cost on Canada’s health-care system was nearly $5.4 billion, which is ...

We sought to determine whether T2D-related genetic variants predicted all-cause mortality, even after accounting for BMI, in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Conclusions ...

In retrospect, the obesity-rate “plateaus” during those ... Almost half the variability in body weight is genetic, Yanovski told me, and that fact in itself could put a ceiling on the long- ...